[ec2] disk partition configurations

Thomas Hervé thomas.herve at canonical.com
Sat Jun 13 15:00:35 BST 2009


Le samedi 13 juin 2009 à 09:52 -0400, Darren Govoni a écrit :
> Hi,
>   Pardons if this is a more general question, but I am running the 8.10
> beta1 on high-cpu instances. I notice the drives are partitioned more or
> less into 3GB partitions. 
> 
>   I see the /mnt is 400GB but its not part of the image.
> 
>   Is there a way to specify that I need say a 500GB drive and at least a
> 200GB partition somewhere that gets bundled into the image? I can't use
> EBS or /mnt because I want some data burned into the image that is about
> 120GB in size.
> 
> Is it possible?

No, the maximum size of an image is 10GB. Also, I think it would be
pretty slow to create such a big image. I think EBS snapshots are the
way to go here.

-- 
Thomas




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